“People care about their community, that is the Britain I see – the question is how we give people confidence that where they live is getting better” – Interview with The Observer

There are far too many assets being lost on the high street – whether it’s the community centre, library, pub, post office – where consumers have no stake in the asset that is coming or going.

There is too much of this ‘well the market will decide, if there isn’t a market for it, it will just stay empty and that’s just the reality’. That is no where near good enough, it massively impacts on people’s confidence and security, and it massively impacts on their feelings towards politics.

We cannot afford in the first parliament to repair a decade and a half of the previous government, but we can start rebuilding the foundations and do it by working with the communities.

Co-operation; pulling together, each making a contribution and sharing the dividend is the foundation of the Co-op Party’s Community Britain campaign.

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